First light from hotel room. The cloud cover soon dissipated.
We exited town by the back way—our first ford…in, amazingly, a Ford!
Infrastructure slope! From top to bottom…. Various electrical poles. Major regional irrigation water, in pipes, not open channels. Zigzag of roads on slope. Road bridge of at least three arches. Railroad bridge of two arches. Oh, and guardrail to keep us safe.
“I can see Madrid from “my” dead olive tree!” [Hint: tall buildings are visible just to the left of the tree, on the horizon.]
I can also see Madrid over this Medieval well with stabilized walls.
I can see my spouse atop a Medieval bridge!
The shady side of this gorge, where I stood to take the above photo, is so shady, the lichens were this prolific.
On the opposite side, the sunlight means happy mosses, with other types of lichen.
One of my favorite compositions of the day.
We drove up to a famous Late Paleolithic site (and museum) with Acheulean-style tools, with and many animal bone fossils and no hominid remains. We were welcomed first by this beast, two cats on the porch of the museum, and no one to allow us in. Oh, well. [Truth: we did know it would be closed by the time we arrived.]
There’s a day-moon from our last mile, and we’re at our hotel for the night. It’s only a little over an hour before the restaurant opens for dinner service. We worked up an appetite!